Leverhulme International Academic Fellowships

International Academic Fellowships
Enabling established researchers based at a UK higher education institution to spend a period of time in overseas research centres, to develop new knowledge, skills and ideas. Up to £30,000 is available for a period of three to twelve months.

International Academic Fellowships provide established researchers with a concentrated period based in one or more research centres outside the UK. The intention of the scheme is to provide opportunities to develop new knowledge, skills and ideas, and may for example be used for the following:


· observing and learning ground-breaking techniques or practices

· developing new lines of research through overseas collaboration

· making "discipline-hopping excursions" into new areas of research

· developing innovations in teaching

· exchanging ideas


Full details can be found here<http://leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/IAF/IAF.cfm>. Deadline 6 November 2014

Monkeycage: World values lost in translation

Below from Monkeycage website: Link

"At the dawn of the 21st century, the Vietnamese were the most authoritarian people in the world, according to the World Values Survey. Ninety-nine percent of the survey’s respondents in Vietnam in 2001 said they favored military rule. ... In the next round of the survey only a few years later, however, only a third of the samples in Vietnam supported military rule...What happened is that the World Values Survey switched translations.

In 2001, the survey in Vietnam translated the English question about “Having the army rule” as “Vai trò của quân đội,” meaning “The role of the military,” I am told by a Vietnam expert. So respondents who answered “very good” or “good” may have been applauding the role of the military, not the rule of the military. "

BE Jobs

From be-recruit.com & ideas42

1. Ideas 42
Details for (i) Senior Associate, (ii) Analyst & (iii) Project Manager (Financial Heuristics)

2. UK Gov - Behavioural Science Manager

BBC Radio 4 program: Everything we know is wrong [30min]

"A highly influential paper by Dr John Ioannidis at Stanford University called "Why most published research findings are false" argues that fewer than half of scientific papers can be believed, and that the hotter a scientific field (with more scientific teams involved), the less likely the research findings are to be true. He even showed that of the 49 most highly cited medical papers, only 34 had been retested and of them 41 per cent had been convincingly shown to be wrong. And yet they were still being cited.

Again and again, researchers are finding the same things, whether it's with observational studies, or even the "gold standard" Randomised Controlled Studies, whether it's medicine or economics. Nobody bothers to try to replicate most studies, and when they do try, the majority of findings don't stack up. The awkward truth is that, taken as a whole, the scientific literature is full of falsehoods."

Listen here

Behaviors, Incentives & Contracts Workshop on October 25 in University of St Andrews

From SIRE

"SIRE and the School of Economics & Finance, University of St Andrews are pleased to announce the Behaviors, Incentives and Contracts Workshop to be held on October 25, with participation of Professor Faruk Gul of Princeton University as the Keynote Speaker. The workshop aims to provide a forum for microeconomic theorists and widen the interaction among faculty and students from Scottish universities.

Submission of papers in all areas of microeconomic theory is welcome; priority will be given to completed papers. Submissions should be e-mailed to bic2014.standrews@gmail.com by September 22; decisions will be communicated shortly after the deadline.

Participants, who do not necessarily want to present a paper, are also warmly welcome. SIRE/BIC will refund reasonable travel expenses (equivalent to 2nd class rail fare) to academics and PhD students from SIRE universities who wish to attend, although those offering a paper will be given preference. Funds for travel are limited and subject to availability.

Please contact the organisers (Tugce Cuhadaroglu & Kemal Ozbek) should you have any questions."

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

Note: We are happy to talk to prospective candidates who are interested in applying to this to join our research centre. 

2014-15 call for outline proposals is now open. The deadline for applications is 5pm on 8 October 2014.

The aim of the British Academy in making these awards is to offer opportunities for outstanding early career researchers to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in a university environment which will develop their curriculum vitae and improve their prospects of obtaining permanent lecturing posts by the end of the Fellowship. The primary emphasis is on completion of a significant piece of publishable research, which will be assisted by full membership of an academic community of established scholars working in similar fields

Eligibility
Applicants must be supported by the UK host institution in which they wish to hold the Fellowship
Applicants must be within three years of the award of a doctorate (for the 2014-15 competition this means either already having been awarded a doctoral degree following a viva voce examination held on or after 1 April 2012; or having a reasonable expectation that they will have submitted and had their thesis examined by 1 April 2015)
Applicants in the 2014-15 competition awarded a PhD following a viva voce examination held prior to 1 April 2012 who are unable to offer extenuating circumstances, such as interruption to their academic career for maternity leave or illness, will not be considered
Applicants must be a UK or EEA national, or have completed a doctorate at a UK university. Any applicant who does not fall into one of these categories must demonstrate a strong prior association with the UK academic community, for example through already having been employed in a temporary capacity (longer than six months) at a UK university

Full details can be found here. You can check the subject list here to ensure your research area fits (Q21 in FAQs).

h/t Carol Johnstone in our research office. 

Behavioural Science and Policy Workshop

On November 12th, the Stirling Behavioural Science Centre will hold a targeted workshop on “Behavioural Economics, Policy and Business” in Stirling University. The event begins at 3pm and ends at 5pm and there will be coffee in advance. The venue is Stirling University Cottrell Building Court Room and further directions will be provided.

This is the fourth in our series of public policy workshops which are aimed at providing a forum for widespread engagement between centre researchers and people working in policy and business. The broad questions of interest for the forum are below. Details of the talks will be provided here.

- What aspects of behavioural economics should particularly interest business people? For example, how is behavioural economics relevant to product development, advertising and marketing? What are the potential regulatory changes emerging from this literature?

- Why should policymakers care about behavioural economics? What is the relevance of behavioural economics to such questions as how we should design taxation and regulation?

- What has this new literature to say about economic policy in Scotland and RUK?

There will also be a Q&A session and ample opportunity for audience participation.

Programme: 

Philip Newall (Stirling) 

Leonhard Lades (Stirling)